The document summarizes a presentation about the public beta release of Cloudera Desktop, a web-based platform for accessing and managing Hadoop clusters. Cloudera Desktop aims to improve the user experience of interacting with Hadoop by providing a desktop metaphor and allowing users to browse files, design and run jobs, and check cluster health directly from a web browser. The presentation demonstrates features of Cloudera Desktop and discusses the motivations for its web-based, desktop-inspired interface and extensible platform design. It encourages attendees to try the free public beta and provide feedback.

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2. Cloudera Desktop
Public Beta
Philip Zeyliger (philip@cloudera.com) (twitter: @philz42)
Software Engineer, Cloudera
Hadoop User’s Group – October 21, 2009
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3. So, what is it?
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Irene Testot-Ferry
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4. web-based,
platform
for your Hadoop cluster
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Irene Testot-Ferry
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5. focus on:
user experience
collaboration
extensibility
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6. Stock Hadoop Web UIs
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7. Demo!
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8. Login
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9. Launch Menu
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10. File Browser
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11. File Viewer
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12. File Viewer (Binary View)
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13. Job Designer - List of Job Designs
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14. Job Designer – Edit Job
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15. Job Designer – Running a Job
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16. Job Designer – Watch Running Job
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17. Job Browser
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18. Job Browser
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19. Cluster Health – Dashboard
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20. Cluster Health – Lints
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21. That’s it for the demo.
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22. Why, why, why?
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23. Why web-based?
▪Accessibility
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mankitho/418398967/
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24. Why desktop metaphor?
Interconnectedness
▪
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25. Why platform?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/grdloizaga/817443503/
Extensibility
▪
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26. Behind the scenes...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cipherswarm/29537467/
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27. NameNode
User
Desktop NN Plugin
DataNode
DataNode
DataNode
DataNode
Desktop DN Plugin HTTP
Desktop DN Plugin
Desktop DN Plugin
Desktop DN Plugin Thrift
Desktop WebServer
Thrift (django)
Desktop healthd
JobTracker
Desktop jobsubd
Thrift
Desktop JT Plugin
TaskTracker
TaskTracker
TaskTracker
TaskTracker
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28. Future Directions
▪More apps.
▪More integration.
▪More collaboration.
▪More APIs.
▪More love.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fboyd/1105527157/
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29. Go try it! It’s free.
“Just launched a Hadoop
cluster, on EC2, from an airplane.
See you at Hadoop World!”
-- @philz42
System Requirements:
Users:
• Firefox 3.5
Hadoop Cluster:
• Recent CDH2
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30. Go try it! It’s free.
▪ Public Beta available at
http://cloudera.com/desktop
▪ Go try it!
▪ It’s a beta, there are some rough edges.
▪ Send us feedback!
▪ desktop-announce-subscribe@cloudera.com
▪ Go extend it?
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31. Questions?
philip@cloudera.com
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32. (c) 2008 Cloudera, Inc. or its licensors. "Cloudera" is a registered trademark of Cloudera, Inc.. All rights reserved. 1.0
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